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Vocab #2 LA2
Luis Quinones' Study Stack Flashcards
Question | Answer |
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archeologist | the study of prehistoritis people and thier cutures |
rummaging | to search throughly or actively through a place especially by moving around |
fugitives | a person who is fleeing from prosecution or a runaway |
fedora | a soft felt hat with a curved brim,worn with a crown creased lengthwise |
colleague | an accosiate |
relics | a survivibg memorial of the past |
Egyptologist | the scientific study of egyptians antiques |
anthropologist | a person who specializes in athropology |
obelisk | a tapering 4 sided shaft of stone,usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex |
amulet | a small object used to warn off evil,harm or illness |
illuminated | to supply or brighten with light |
curator | a person who in charge of a museum or art exhibit |
hieroglyphics | designing or pertaining to a pictograph script particulary that and of the ancient egyptians |
decipher | to make out the meaning of |
brandishing | to shake or wave as a weapon;or flourish |
sarcophagus | a stone coffin,especially one bearing sculpture or inscription(etc.) |
deportation | thde lawful expulsion of an undesiared alien or person from another state |
incredulous | not credulous;discinclined to believe or skeptical |
quayside | an area bordering around a quay or qauys |
dissipatedanned | indulging in or characterized by exsessive devotion to pleassure;intemperate or dissolute |